Five years ago a doctoral student arrived on the UW-Madison campus ready to begin work toward a degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.

WIDA Researcher Explores Aussie Roots

Rosalie Grant has mostly studied English language learners (ELLs) in America, but in the past few months, she has been able to return to her roots, delving into a study of education reform efforts directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ELLs in her native land “Down Under.”

He Leaves Wisconsin to Winter in Norway

In the early 1900s his grandparents left Norway to the live in the U.S. More than a century later, Paul Bredeson is back in Norway for a year of sharing about the education systems in both countries.

Where Students are Trilingual and Serious about Learning

It was cold in Kazakhstan, so his first purchase was a big, warm, fox-fur hat. As a trainer for Families and Schools Together, Chris Daniel is accustomed to flying here and there. But Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were new territory.

UW Madison education professor David Kaplan is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, though his current program of research focuses on Bayesian statistical methods for experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational studies in education

UW Madison education professor David Kaplan is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, though his current program of research focuses on Bayesian statistical methods for experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational studies in education

Thanks to technology, students can produce videos to share with other youth globally, and view and comment on videos produced by youth in sites far away.

On a recent visit to Peru, Adam Gamoran delivered talks on causal effects of social capital, accountability policies in the U.S and their impact on social inequalities.

Special education students in Turkey are benefiting from a collaboration between Kimber Wilkerson and two former graduate students in the department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education.

Bob Enright and colleagues have been teaching forgiveness for decades, and in Nothern Ireland for the past 10 years..

Education professor Clif Conrad spoke at a conference in Erbil, northern Iraq, last summer, about efforts to rebuild Iraq's university system.

UW Madison education professor Mitchell Nathan won’t say whether he prefers Argentina or Chile, but he will tell you that both locations have afforded stimulating discussions with colleagues who work at the intersection of neuroscience and education.

UW-Madison education professor Amy Stambach is fascinated by the many ways that education and religion intersect.

Nancy Kendall works to improve life for Mozambican and Malawian school children affected by HIV/AIDS and to improve young women's reproductive health.

Students and schools in Singapore are benefiting from research from the UW-Madison Center on Education and Work.

Adam Gamoran is doing research that involves collaboration with colleagues across the globe. In fact, his work has taken him to three continents in just the past year.

WCER faculty member Mark S. Johnson is collaborating with the Moscow National Research University Higher School of Economics to create a new MA program in Higher Education Management and Policy Studies.

UW-Madison education professor Francois Victor Tochon is helping improve teacher education in a public university that trains language teachers from Anatolia, a poor region of Turkey.